This remote place that Casio came to has no other use, it has only one purpose, which is the experimental place for Casio to make paper!

Now that he had decided to make money from papermaking, Casio naturally began to prepare the papermaking test site and various tools early. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Walking through the house, I came to the open space at the back of the house, and I saw a large 10x10 pool in the middle, which was filled with wooden blocks about the size of a fist, as well as bits and pieces such as tree bark and old fishing nets.

These things have been soaked in this pool for nearly eight or nine days, and most of them are already swollen and foamed, and they are almost ready for use.

Seeing Casio's arrival, Tony and some townspeople immediately stepped forward to salute Casio.

"How's it going?" Casio asked Tony.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, all the tools have been prepared according to your requirements. ”

Casio nodded, and commanded, "You have someone take some soaked wood and bark from the pool, and we'll start experimenting." ”

At Casio's orders, Tony immediately had some of the townsfolk start picking them up in the pool, and moved them to what looked like a millstone next to them in a large wooden frame.

Casio came up to what looked like a big millstone and walked from side to side, taking a closer look.

Casio's last life was a time when communication was basically electronic and informational, and things like paper were rarely used.

But fortunately, when he was a child studying history and other courses, he naturally also came into contact with papermaking. Although he doesn't know much about the specific process and production process, he still knows the general steps.

The first step Casio takes is to soak the raw materials so that they absorb enough water and are better crushed in the process.

Not to mention any advanced methods, that is, according to the most primitive method, the wood should be soaked in water for at least dozens of days and nights, allowing the bacteria of nature to decompose it and separate the cellulose.

However, Casio couldn't wait that long, and he also needed a papermaking method with a short construction period, so he tentatively set the soaking time at about ten days, and cut the raw materials as small as possible to make it easier to soak in.

At this time, Casio observed something similar to a grinding disc, which was the most rudimentary disc mill he himself had made by the blacksmiths of Greenwater Town according to his own memories.

Not to mention that Casio doesn't understand the structure of the disc mill at all, even with the forging level of Green Water Town, it is estimated that it is impossible to make a real disc mill.

The whole disc mill is designed in accordance with the grinding disc method, the outermost ring is a round shell poured with thick molten iron, and the middle is a vertical shaft, and then a large circular iron lump that is just suitable for putting into the shell is drilled into the vertical shaft and can be directly pressed into the shell.

When various raw materials are placed under the shell, a large round iron lump called a grinding stone is pressed and then turned on top of it, and the material inside is ground up.

Casio patted the world's most rudimentary disc mill and was satisfied. If nothing else, at least the blacksmiths did exactly what he asked them to do.

When Tony had the raw materials brought in, the townsfolk began to press down on the other side of the lever, which drove the millstone up from the inside of the iron shell, and a closer look revealed that the bottom of the millstone was not smooth, but had stripes that resembled knife carvings.

These are some of the adjustments Casio has made in order to grind the material as finely as possible.

When the grinding stone is raised, others begin to lay layers of raw material on the bottom.

Once the raw materials were laid, the millstones were lowered again, and several townsfolk lined up like wheat mills and began to rotate around the pan mill.

Suddenly, a small creaking sound was heard from under the disc mill, and Casio estimated that it should be the sound of raw materials being cut.

Some people push the millstone for grinding, and from time to time they add some water from the specially created cavity above the millstone to keep the raw material moist.

As the milling continued, some of the wood chips that had been ground into finer pieces flowed out of the small holes left under the iron shell and poured into the barrels below.

The next step is to settle the barrel a little and continue to fill it with water from the barrel.

In less than half an hour, the first townspeople pushing the millstone were exhausted and panting, and Casio was stunned to watch.

When he designed this disc mill, he didn't think too much about it, everything was based on how to grind the raw materials.

Therefore, when these townspeople push the millstone, because the underside of the millstone is not smooth, the concave and convex surfaces will bring more resistance, which leads to more effort on the part of the person pushing the millstone.

"Well, motivation is a problem, it has to be improved. Casio muttered to himself as he looked at the townsfolk who had been changing shifts in less than half an hour.

"However, this world doesn't use cows to grind, not even a donkey, it's simply unscientific!" Casio then couldn't help but complain.

Then, grinding, grinding, grinding, grinding, grinding so much that Casio almost fell asleep, and finally completed half of the second step.

At this time, the raw materials that have been milled repeatedly are finally filled with the cauldron for boiling.

The next thing is relatively simple, just pour all the ingredients into the cauldron and start boiling until it is ready to be pulp.

The later process is much simpler than the first part.

After boiling for about a day or two, the crushed raw materials finally melted and looked like a bit of pulp.

In order to make the pulp more viscous, Casio continued to boil for four days before stopping the process.

Then Casio waited for the pulp to cool, and then scooped up the pulp with a flat bamboo curtain that had been prepared long ago, one by one, like a film.

In order to make the water flow out faster, Casio thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to try it, using a large stone and pressing it on top of the folded paper film, so as to press out most of the water.

When most of the water had been pressed out, Casio had paper charcoal burned under a thin iron plate, using the temperature of the charcoal to bake the paper film.

After the paper film was dry, Casio finally had a smile on his face.

Although the paper now looks a little uneven because of his poor skills in scooping the pulp, at least the dried paper looks like it is indeed formed.

Tony and the others watched nervously, and naturally they learned from Casio that His Royal Highness seemed to want to create a new type of paper to make up for Greenwater's financial problems.

The smile on Casio's face instantly froze when he picked up a pale yellow piece of paper with an excited face.

Because the moment he picked it up, the paper, which didn't seem to be wrong, actually shattered with a little force!

Yes, shattered!

Although it is not crumbled like a shortbread, it has absolutely nothing to do with the flexibility and other properties of the paper.

Looking at what barely counts as paper in his hand with a speechless expression, Casio realizes that he failed his first attempt!